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A huge Cuban visual arts exhibition without precedents, called ¡CUBA! Arte e historia de 1868 hasta nuestros días (CUBA! Art and history from 1868 to our days) is being successfully exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum from Montreal, Canada) since January 29, 2008.

The mainstream international media paints Cuba as a hell-hole where a down-trodden people have few rights, and even fewer cars or cell phones. An AP article widely circulated on Tuesday, quoted a Freedom House study, calling Cuba one of the “most repressive” countries on Earth.

Representatives from the Cuban and Canadian Foreign ministries held official talks this week and agreed on the good status of bilateral relations between the two countries.

The Havana-based Casa de las Americas will soon celebrate its 50th anniversary -a cultural institution devoted to the promotion of the art and identities of all the Latin American and Caribbean peoples.

Pro-Environment Work Brigades to Be Formed in Cuba. This summer, Cuban university students will work on the cleaning up of their communities and universities

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega called the summit to discuss joint solutions to face the crisis triggered by soaring prices of foodstuffs on the world market and its impact on developing countries

The II International Colloquium Cultural diversity in the Caribbean, organized by the Casa de las Américas, will bring together here intellectuals and artists from the region from next May 26 until the 28.

Economic and trade relations between Cuba and Belarus are increasing, said on Tuesday the Byelorussian ambassador in Havana, Igar I. Paluyan.

After winning three Olympic and six World titles, which earned him the nickname of “boxeador historia” (legendary boxer), Cuba’s Félix Savón Fabré now has his hands set on conquering the artistic world.

For 50 years he has perforated wood, metal, linoleum and stone, teaching his pupils the secrets of engraving and becoming one of the most outstanding promoters of this art in Cuba during the second half of the twentieth century.

Alicia Alonso still maintains her graceful way of talking and the elegant movement of her hands and head. Sixty years as director of the Cuban National Ballet Company, to be marked in October, have perhaps made her body less flexible, but her enthusiasm for ballet -the art discipline through which she best expresses herself- remains the same.

Cuban cigar roller Jose Castelar Cairo, known as Cueto, is rolling the longest cigar of the world to establish his fourth Guiness World Record.

Participants in the 4th International Conference on the Work of Karl Marx and Challenges of the 21st Century, underway in Havana, will dedicate a special session on Tuesday to the case of five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in the United States.

There young people think about the art they are making and turn their gaze back to history to save everything that is beautiful and useful. The famous Cuban ethnologist, Miguel Barnet, president of the UNEAC, shared the session with the participants.

Bruce Golding will be accompanied by some other ministers Jamaican Prime Minister Visits Cuba. Jamaica Prime Minister Orette Bruce Golding is scheduled to arrive Today in Cuba, at the invitation of President Raul Castro.